Doña Rosa Bustamante (1735-1814)

The papers behind the panel survive in the Ortiz family collection at the State Records Center. Rosa Bustamante married Antonio José Ortiz on December 31, 1754; he served as mayordomo of the confraternity of La Conquistadora and as alcalde mayor of Santa Fe from 1790 to 1794. The census of 1790 lists six Native servants in their household, the youngest a girl of eight. Her will set aside money for masses and for the oratory of San José, a clause her family was still carrying out in 1829.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Palace of the Governors — 14 mi
  The long adobe on the north side of the Santa Fe plaza, called the oldest public building in continuous use in the country, though its own founding date is in dispute.
• Bandelier National Monument — 18 mi
  Rooms carved into soft volcanic tuff in Frijoles Canyon, named for a Swiss scholar who was led there in 1880 by a man from Cochiti Pueblo.
• Pecos National Historical Park — 24 mi
  The red walls of a 1717 mission church inside the foundations of a far larger one, beside the kiva Pecos people dug in front of the old church during the revolt of 1680.
• Fuller Lodge — 25 mi
  The upright-log dining hall of a boys' ranch school, which fed and housed the Manhattan Project after the Army bought the school in 1942.

More markers nearby

• Vega y Coca Sisters — steps away
• Golondrinas Old Cienega Village Museum — 1.6 mi
• Sisters of Charity — 2.7 mi
• Three Wise Women — 2.7 mi